Method of winding strips.



W. T. MCCOY.

METHOD OF WINDING STRIPS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-24. 1914.

1 1 59,78 1 Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORN EY WILLIAM THOMAS MCCOY OF UTIGA, 1\TEW YORK.

METHOD or WINDING s'rRIPs.

Specification of Letters Ifatent.

Patented. NOV. 9, 1915.

Application filed January 24, 1914. Serial No. 814,191.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. MCCOY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at No. 225 Steuben street, Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Method of Winding Strips, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to an improved method of winding strips, and I declare that the following is a full, clear, concise and exact description thereof, sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to practise and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout.

The method is applicable particularly in winding strips of paper, cloth or the like which have been prepared with some suitable compound Or material to fit it for catching flies and other insects that light upon it, as is familiar in the well known case of fly paper. In some forms of such product a strip of paper thus prepared is rolled up in a continuous roll or fold in a series of folds and held in a box or container which, when suitably hung up, allows the strip to swing free in the air. In the form which I have in mind there will. be a cover for the container and contents so that the article may be suspended either by the cover or the bottom of the box and the other member of the container being supported by the free end of the strip. In the'method heretofore employed in winding or folding these strips, the strip has been continuously wound or rolled from one end to the other, or has been plaited from one end to the other. In my method of winding these strips I do not start at one end and plait or roll the strip continuously upon itself, but

I start at the middle of the strip and roll both halves at the same time but in reversed coils. In this way the operation of winding requires only a fraction of the time re quired in the old way.

I submit in the drawings herewith an illustration of one form of mechanism for practising this invention, in which Figure l is an end view of a part of the mechanism showing the coil of the strip with the top and bottom of the box secured one at each end of the strip. Fig. 2 is a side view indicating the features of a suitable machine for practising this invention.

This mechanism consists of a table por tion 1, suitably supported, which has revolubly mounted thereon a shaft 2, at one end of which is mounted the prongs 3 and 4. Treadle 5 is provided from which a cord passes to the shaft 2, with several turns of the cord on the shaft so that when the treadle is pressed down the shaft is revolved in a given direction by the unwinding of the coils. A cord 6 is mounted on the shaft and supports a weight 7, which cord is wound on the shaft 2 when the treadle-cord 1s unwound, so that therelease of pressure from the treadle will re-wind the treadlecord on the shaft in readiness for the windmg of another strip.

In 1 the strip is shown by 8 and the parts of the container by 9 and 10. This figure illustrates how my invention is practised. The operator takes the strip and places it between the prongs 3 and 4. with half the length of the strip on each side. The portion of the strip which comes in contact with the prongs need not be covered with the sticky preparation and it is preferable not to do so. The operator by means of the 'treadle causes the prongs to revolve which winds up the strip in the fashion indicated in Fig. 1, which brings the parts of the container up close tothe spindle, each end of the strip being mounted in one part of the container. When the work has gone to the extent of bringing the top and bottom of the container closely together the strip. is withdrawn from between the prongs and the container closed with the strip therein.

My invention, therefore, comprises the new and useful method of packing such strips in a suitable container, as herein set forth, and

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. The method of packing a flexible strip in a container which consists in securing one end of the strip to the container, coiling the strip about itself from its center toward both ends at the same time until the strip is substantially wound up, separating the winding means from the coiled strip and housing the coil within the container with the free end of the coil in the top of the container, whereby tension applied to said free endWill remove said soil from the container and unroll it from both ends toward the middle.

2. The method of packing a flexible strip in a two-part container which consists in securing opposite ends of the strip to the top and body parts of the container respectively, coiling the strip about itself from its center toward both ends at the. same time until the strip is substantially wound up, separatingthewinding means from the. coiled strip and housing the coil by bringing the two parts of the container together, so that separation of the parts of the container will remove saidsoil from the container and 15 Copies of. this patent may be. obtainedv for five cents each by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents, Washington, D. G. 

